Passing values to the dropdown in Adobe Interactive form

Hello Adobe Experts,
Can you please provide some inputs for the below mentioned points.
I have created a webdynpro application and placed an interactive form.
1. I have 2 dropdown fields in the interactive form..say Country and State. How can i show the all countries available in SAP system in the Country dropdown.(like standard dropdown)
2. How can i dynamically show the States of selected country in the dropdown of State.
3. I need to validate the mandatory fields on the form on click of Submit button kept on the form. But, giving Value Type "User entered...required" is not working. how to validate in another way. Should we write validation script for all individual fields.
4. How to place a web link on the interactive form. When user clicks on this link, we should navigate to that particular link.
Thanks & Regards,
Ram.

Hi RAM,
I'll try to answer your questions one by one. Any comments and feedback are welcome.
1.- I assume that you have created a Model, a Service Controller and binded the data to your view.
At this point, you need to bind the property datasource of your interactive form to a node in your context hierarchy.
This data will be available at the form Data View Palette.
Then you have to edit your form, drag a Drop Down List to the form and in the Fields Tab of the Object Palette you need
to bind the List Items property. Just click the link and in the "Dynamic Properties" window, choose the table root node for Items, and the Text and Value atributes for Text and value properties respectively.
After that, in the binding tab, you will have to do the "default binding", and bind the values clicking on "Specify Item Values".
Edited by: Aldo Velazquez on Nov 29, 2010 4:32 PM

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